more exceptional 50s style modern art on the cover of this 1983 ibm pcjr game by nasir gebelli of apple ii/final fantasy fame

ibm's in-house artist uncredited, sadly.

one nice touch of humanity in the illustration is the ink overdraw on the far right side, where the artist ran a ruled line from the bottom up to the hypotenuse of the cheese. these tiny "imperfections" add detail, flavour and warmth to what might otherwise be sterile design.

#ibm #pcjr #retroComputing #vintageComputer #dosGaming #design #illustration

Got to do some budgeting today.

https://peertube.wtf/w/iFto7UZnNyf3NK8TF6UEMK

#pcjr #ibm #retro #retrocomputing #pc

It's extremely frustrating when I am ACTUALLY showing a #PCjr doing ACTUAL network things with #FujiNet, and I get maybe 100 views, and I see stupid shit like THIS:

FML.

Working on #msdos port of #fujinet battleship, viewing charset on #pcjr over network while hacking on the code in #emacs.

#fujinet makes #retrocomputing and #retrogaming #gamedev even better.

Used the #FujiNet enabled tile editor I wrote to draw the graphics for the #msdos version of FujiNet Battleship on my #PCjr. The graphics were exported directly onto my development PC over the network, right into #emacs.

#retrocomputing #retrogaming #gamedev

I needed a tile editor for doing our MS-DOS #gamedev.

I decided to make one that could send its data using a #FujiNet attached to my #PCjr, to my dev system.

https://youtu.be/75i190rgcK8

#retrocomputing #retrogaming

#atari8bit #apple2 #coco #c64 #plus4 #commodore #trs80coco #msdos #pcjr

All playing the same networked game. Together.

More to come.

That's FujiNet.

https://youtu.be/F4l51soCiiA

(website: fujinet dot online)

#retrocomputing #retrogaming

It's still weird when looking back at the 1980s and realizing that one of the most influential home computers in the USA was an absolute flop: the IBM PCjr.

Because that's what Tandy very successfully cloned and improved as the Tandy 1000 line. I didn't own one but so many of my friends/family did.

#septandy #retroComputing #PCjr #IBM